LIFE OF MYTTON. T9 



Rochester was turned loose into the world at a very- 

 early age, and so was John Mytton. The one entered 

 the navy, the other the Seventh Hussars. 



Rochester distinguished himself in an enaaofement. 

 Mytton was never in one. 



Rochester once made himself a mountebank. 

 Mytton was always more or less one. 



Rochester was drunk for five years continually. 

 Mytton beat him by seven.* 



Rochester "pursued low amours, in mean disguises." 

 Mytton, in propria persona, seldom pursued any 

 other. 



Rochester slunk away from his friend in a street- 

 row. Mytton would rather have remained to have 

 been pummelled to death. 



The Duke of Buckingham left it on record that 

 Rochester refused to fight him. Mytton was never 

 put to that test. 



Rochester wrote libels in which he did not stick to 

 truth. Mytton never said ill-natured things, much less 

 published them. 



* I am sorry to say one of his oldest friends, and a regular " pot-com- 

 panion," made an affidavit — to serve a certain purpose — that he (Mytton) 

 had been drunk for twelve successive years ! I think it would have been 

 better that he had had recourse to the " Non mi ricordo." 



